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Balfour fue uno de los más célebres fundadores de la embriología evolutiva, convirtiéndose en un antecedente de la moderna evo-devo. Su Tratado sobre embriología comparada (1880 - 1881) fue escrito tanto para ofrecer un fundamento embriológico a la filogenia como para dotar de un contexto evolutivo a los estudios sobre la organogénesis .
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- James Maitland Balfour, Blanche Mary Harriet Gascoyne-Cecil
Francis Maitland Balfour, known as F. M. Balfour, FRS (10 November 1851 – 19 July 1882) was a British biologist. He lost his life while attempting the ascent of Mont Blanc. He was regarded by his colleagues as one of the greatest biologists of his day and Charles Darwin's successor.
- Royal Medal (1881)
- embryology
- 10 November 1851, Edinburgh, Scotland
- Trinity College, Cambridge
Francis Maitland Balfour, British zoologist, younger brother of the statesman Arthur James Balfour, and a founder of modern embryology. He made many original observations about the embryonic development of vertebrate urogenital organs (e.g., kidneys, sex organs) and the origin of spinal nerves.
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29 de jun. de 2010 · During the 1870s and early 1880s, the British morphologist Francis Maitland Balfour contributed in important ways to the budding field of evolutionary embryology, especially through his comparative embryological approach to uncovering ancestral relationships between groups.
Francis Maitland Balfour ( * Edimburgo, 10 de noviembre de 1851 - 19 de julio de 1882 ) fue un biólogo y destacadísimo embriólogo escocés.
Francis Maitland Balfour (known as ‘Frank’ to his familiars) was born into an upper class Edinburgh family in November 1851. The picture of him that is overwhelmingly used in biographical accounts, taken from an oil painting by John Collier, shows him looking slightly ethereal, with a moustache of a type fashionable at the time.
29 de may. de 2018 · Balfour, Francis Maitland. ( b. Edinburgh, Scotland, 10 November 1851; d. near Courmayeur, Switzerland, 19/20July 1882) embryology. The third son of James Maitland Balfour and Lady Blanche, daughter of the marquis of Salisbury, Francis Balfour came from an illustrious family, the outstanding member of which was his oldest brother ...
